Recent content by JemJar

This is a very astute post that has somehow drifted past without being noticed. That's a shame. It's not strictly true of course, I've dragged a Boomshot around huge amounts of GoW games in order to use it in totally inappropriate areas but the fundamental idea, that it limits player options...

See, in my experience Gears is one of the proverbial "good guys" - two weapons, a pistol and some grenades "works" visually and the relatively limited number of weapons have a different feel which leaves people picking the ones they prefer. I've played through all three of the "proper" GoW...

A couple of questions (somewhat rhetorically) put to Shamus : 1) Do you not find that an imposed two-weapon limit can be a deliberate source of difficulty and challenge in a game? That having the right weapon to hand all the time is just a little dull? 2) Is the two weapon limit (or at...

You make a valid point, that the threat posed by super-powered people is significantly greater than that of, say, homosexual people. If nothing else though, it serves to accentuate the stupidity of prejudice against ethnic, racial and religious minorities. People have gone to great lengths to...

Jim Sterling, how dare you tar the great Richard O'Brien by association with the horrible PR doublespeak of Ubisoft's charlatans? Despicable, sir, I'll see you hanged.

The Batman Try Splinter Cell : Double Agent. There are two tutorial levels : the first is just to do basic movement controls (literally "move into the patch of light") and the second is a full on stealth insertion, take down three armed guards while remaining utterly undetected. Wait...

Jim, you're an interesting game critic/pundit. But you're an awful actor. Please stick to what you know (when you're not blindly insulting your audience for no good reason) because when you do you make interesting videos.

Pick your company. Gearbox's handling of Borderlands 2 DLC has been quite competent - yes, they've got some overpriced skins on DLC but given there are plenty of options offered for free in the game (and one bonus on with each DLC *content* pack too) it doesn't offend unless you get that...

If Jim were a forum poster, we'd all be telling him to stop feeding the trolls. Between this, the Anita Sarkesian thing and the Dragon's Crown review "controversy"; the whole message can be summed up by "Hey jerks, stop being ridiculous over-the-top jerks" and yet without Jim ranting for...

This is in large part because games are expensive things to try and demos are a pain to make. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QM6LoaqEnY

Very good work. Best article on the Escapist in years in my opinion. Kinect is currently an expensive addition to an XBox 360 rather than an integral component, meaning that Kinect-based games are doomed to sell fewer units - but already there are major Kinect-optional games like Mass Effect...

OH GOD THE HORROR! I still remember the cathedral. I still remember the frustration and terror of the ridiculously alert skeleton guard. I still remember sprinting around the corridors, hacking those beams off the doorway and leaping across the broken balcony above the main hallway. And I...

Yeah, I've played the entire game on co-op with a friend,(I say "entire", we're working through UVHM) and we went back at level 57 (a couple of night ago) to take a shot at level 50 Voracidous and got our asses handed to us in jars. See, Master Gee is interesting but I had no idea what the...

HAH! No! It'll mean we just get three different elements of impossible to dodge supernovas.

Co-op was added with an entirely official post-release patch. It's not a mod. Because, you know, once upon a time games were updated and added to for free.